These TS 10th Class English Important Questions Reading Comprehension Passages Question Number 11 to 15 will help the students to improve their time and approach.
TS 10th Class English Reading Comprehension Passages Question Number 11 to 15
1. Read the following passage.
Abraham Lincoln writes to the Headmaster of his son’s school
“He will have to learn, I know, that all men are not just, all men are not true. But teach him also that for every scoundrel, there is a hero and that for every selfish politician, there is a dedicated leader. Steer him away from envy, if you can, teach him the secret of quiet laughter… Teach him, if you can, the wonder of books… but also give him quiet time to ponder over the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun, and flowers on a green hillside.”
“In school, teach him that it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat… Teach him to have faith in his own ideas, even if everyone tell him they are wrong. Teach him to be gentle with gentle people, and tough with the tough. Try to give my son the strength not to follow the crowd when everyone is getting on the bandwagon. Teach him to listen to all men, but teach him also to filter all he has heard on the screen of truth, and take on the good that comes through it.”
“Teach him, if you can, how to laugh when he is sad… teach him there is no shame in tears. Teach him to scoff at cynics, and to beware of too Much sweetness… Teach him to sell his brawn and brain So ,the,highest bidders, but never to put a tag on his heart and soul. Teach him to close his ears to the howling mob… and to stand and fight if he thinks he’s right”.
“Teach him gently, but do not cuddle him, because only the test of fire makes fine steel. Let him have the courage to be impatient… Let him have the patience to be brave. Teach him always to have sublime faith in himself because then he will always have sublime faith in mankind.”
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
Abraham Lincoln writes a letter to his son’s Headmaster because……
(A) he wants his son to be educated in the best possible manner.
(B) he is very apprehensive abouthis son’s welfare.
(C) he wishes to assert his views on education.
(D) he does not approve of the way the Headmaster runs the school.
Answer:
(A) he wants his son to be educated in the best possible manner.
Question 12.
Reading books is important for students, but it is equally important…….
(A) for them to be quiet, and to think and introspect
(B) to make them appreciate the mysteries of nature.
(C) to make sure they listen to their fellow beings.
(D) to make them dedicated leaders.
Answer:
(B) to make them appreciate the mysteries of nature.
Question 13.
Students must understand it is honourable to fail than to cheat because
(A) they are being watched by God
(B) by cheating they lose self-respect
(C) they develop the habit of cheating
(D) they will have to live with failure.
Answer:
(B) by cheating they lose self-respect
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
“…………… everyone is getting on the bandwagon.” What does this phrase mean?
Answer:
The phrase ‘Everyone is getting on the bandwagon” means everyone is becoming involved in something.
Question 15.
Abraham Lincoln does not want the Headmaster to cuddle his son. Why?
Answer:
Abraham Lincoln feels that only the test of fire makes fine steel. He wants that the Headmaster should not show his son any love or affection. Thus he wants to make his son a good citizen.
2. Read the following passage.
After retiring as the director of a multinational company, he had found the greatest pleasure of life in reading books on India’s culture, literature and plants. He could talk endlessly on the applications of each and every part of the neem tree in Indian medicine. The seed oil and soap made from it can be used very effectively in every skin disease like ulcers, ringworm and in rheumatism. The bark is used as tincture. People say it is beneficial in malaria as well.
Grandpa always used the fresh tender twigs to clean his teeth and the children of the house learnt to do so. Grandma and mother always kept dried neem leaves in books, paper and clothes to protect them. ‘Neem begun’ or leaves of neem fried with pieces of brinjal, was a favourite dish of the whole family, which was eaten as a prevention-for pox, In his childhood, once grandpa, had smallpox and his mother would ,comfort his burning skin with neem leaves. The truth is that much of this knowledge of Indian culture and tradition came to him from his mother, grandmother and others in the family.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
For which purpose can the seed oil of neem be used ?
(A) teeth
(B) to grow brinjal
(C) skin diseases like ulcers, ringworm, and rheumatism
(D) for burning skin
Answer:
(C) skin diseases like ulcers, ringworm, and rheumatism
Question 12.
‘Which disease is cured by its bark ?
(A) smallpox
(B) tincture
(C) rheumatism
(D) malaria
Answer:
(B) tincture
Question 13.
Which word in the passage means the same as ‘to stop something from happening’?
(A) applications
(B)tincture
(C) prevention
(D) favourite
Answer:
(C) prevention
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
Why were neem leaves kept in books, paper and clothes ?
Answer:
Neem leaves were kept in books, paper and clothes to protect them from insects
Question 15.
Which disease had grandpa got in his childhood ?
Answer:
Smallpox.
3. Read the following passage.
Advertising is a close companion of market economy, yet it is an unpleasant feature of modern life. It costs heavily to one’s pocket and one’s life too. An innocent student tried to imitate acrobatics of a Youngman in an advertisement and lost his life. Indeed, advertising has invaded every aspect of human existence, which includes sponsoring of events like sports. Advertising sells goods and ideas too.
Good ideas, like national integration and communal harmony, are spread through advertising. In addition to commercial advertising, we have social advertising, which deals with social issues. Social advertising aims at masses who can be educated about issues like health, family welfare, national security, etc. It is true that even the government falls back upon social advertising to highlight issues of immediate and national concern.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
According to the passage advertising is considered close companion of market economy because
(A) it regulates market economy.
(B) it monitors market economy.
(C) it enhances marketing.
(D) it evaluates marketing.
Answer:
(C) it enhances marketing.
Question 12.
‘Advertising sells ideas too’- this can be understood as
(A) Ideas need advertisement.
(B) Ideas can be spread through advertising.
(C) Advertising is compulsory.
(D) Advertising is necessary for market.
Answer:
(B) Ideas can be spread through advertising.
Question 13.
Social advertising is necessary because
(A) the government falls back upon it.
(B) society falls back upon it.
(C) it aims at the economy of the people.
(D) it aims at the welfare of the people.
Answer:
(D) it aims at the welfare of the people.
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
What are the two types of advertising referred in the passage ? How are they different?
Answer:
The two types of advertising are commercial advertising and social advertising. Commercial advertising enhances market economy where as social advertising educates people about issues like health, family welfare, national security etc.
Question 15.
Do you think advertising really costs one’s life ? What can be done to avoid this ?
Answer:
Yes, I think commercial advertising really costs one’s life. One should not imitate the things shown in advertisements without proper training and skill.
4. Read the following passage.
There is an incident which occured at the examination during my first year at the high school, and which is worth recording. Mr.Giles, the Educational Inspector, had come on a visit of inspection. He had set us five words to write as spelling exercise. One of the words was ‘kettle’. I had mis-spelt it. The teacher tried to prompt me with the point of his boot, but I would not be prompted.
It was beyond me to see that he wanted me to copy the spelling from my ‘neighbours’ slate, for I had thought that the teacher was there to supervise us against copying. The result that all the boys except myself were found to have spelt every word correctly. Only I had been stupid. The teacher tried later to bring this stupidity home to me, but without effect. I never could learn the ‘art of copying’.
Yet the incident did not in the least diminish my respect for my teacher. I was, by nature, blind to the faults of elders. Later I came to know many other failings of this teacher, but my regard for him remained the same. For I had learnt to carry out the orders of elders, not to scan their actions. – Gandhiji
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
Who came to the high school on a visit of inspection?
(A) neighbour
(B) teacher
(C) educational inspector
(D) Gandhiji
Answer:
(C) educational inspector
Question 12.
‘Gandhiji had learnt
(A) art of copying
(B) carrying out the orders of elders.
(C) finding fault with his teachers.
(D) scanning the actions of elders.
Answer:
(B) carrying out the orders of elders.
Question 13.
The copying incident did not lessen Gandhiji’s respect for his teacher because:
(A) he did not find fault with elders.
(B) he believed that teachers were always right.
(C) he was afraid of speaking.
(D) many students copy in their exams.
Answer:
(A) he did not find fault with elders.
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
What did the teacher prompt Gandhiji to do ?
Answer:
The teacher prompted Gandhiji to copy the spelling from his neighbours’ slate.
Question 15.
What do you learn as a student, from this account of Gandhiji’s school days ?
Answer:
We should not find fault with elders and carry out the orders of elders. We should not copy from others.
5. Read the following passage.
The printing of music differs essentially from the printing of a purely verbal text. As this difference arises from the divergence between the nature of music and the nature of literature, it must be summarised at the outset. Whereas in a verbal text the letters forming a word represent a concept to be conveyed by the eye to the brain, in music the note, whether accompanied by a text or not, is primarily an instruction to bring into action lungs or fingers, or both combined, in order to produce a sound at a certain pitch and of a certain duration.
Besides devising symbols to convey these instructions with unmistakable precision, the musical typographer has also to bear in mind the need to indicate as clearly as possible, first, the interval, of whatever degree, between the pitch of one note and that of the next, and second, the changes in spacing between one note or group of notes and the next, as required by changes in time-values. These are principles of horizontality.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
Why do you think the printing of Music is difficult?
(A) It uses symbols
(B) It uses notes
(C) Actions differ
(D) Plain text
Answer:
(B) It uses notes
Question 12.
The printed music has
(A) Instructions to sing
(B) Principles of horizontality
(C) Sounds and patterns
(D) Intervals and durations of music.
Answer:
(D) Intervals and durations of music.
Question 13.
The print of literature is basically:-
(A) Plain
(B) Complicated
(C) Combined
(D) Summarized.
Answer:
(A) Plain
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
What has caused the difference in printing Literature and Music?
Answer:
The divergence between the nature of music and the nature of literature
Question 15.
What do you mean by a ‘Musical Typographer’?
Answer:
A person who specializes In the design, choice, and arrangement of type matter of music.
6. Read the following passage.
Until a hundred years ago as humans we had a simple, uncomplicated biological connect. It was a straightforward equation: we drew roughly 3000 calories each of energy out of the Earth for our food and life’s sustenance. Today that number per capital has grown to 100000 calories. We still need only 3000 calories each to nourish life itself. All the rest of this energy is what we extract from the Earth for everything else besides keeping ourselves alive.
In some countries, like the US, this per capital number runs at over 200000 calories. Some of us are concerned about this. We fret over what we could – and should – really be doing to soften this abuse of resources. Little things fox us in the welter of things that we get to read.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
The earliest human beings were:-
(A) Close to the earth
(B) Overconsumptions
(C) Over eating
(D) Over dieting
Answer:
(A) Close to the earth
Question 12.
The basic calorie requirement for human beings is:-
(A) 100000CIS
(B) 3000CIS
(C) 200000CIS
(D) 3000CIS
Answer:
(B) 3000CIS
Question 13.
Over the years, the requirement of calories for humans have:-
(A) Increased
(B) Decreased
(C) Not Changed
(D) Always changing
Answer:
(C) Not Changed
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
How are the earliest and modern human beings different?
Answer:
The earliest humans depended on the earth only for their needs and sustenance. Modern humans depend on the earth for greed and luxuries.
Question 15.
What does the excess consumption of Calories mean?
Answer:
Over usage of resources.
7. Read the following passage.
Health is wealth ! People have been conscious of maintaining a healthy body and keeping fit. The present generation is going through a lot of stress, tension and competition in their personal and professional lives. Many of us try to follow a regular exercise regime, but sometimes diet is not taken care of or vice versa. And many of us are working in offices, which results in sitting and working for long hours. Thus it leads to lack of physical activity and thus we tend to put on weight. Also we travel by our own vehicles to our places of work.
And most of the home makers also have the latest gadgets at home or they employ maids to do the routine house work. I have tried to plan my diet eating at the right time. I eat non-vegetarian only of in a week, try to eat green vegetables, leafy vegetables, pulses, chapatis and very less rice. I try to avoid deeply fried food stuffs and also too many snacks. Instead I try to drink fresh fruit juices, eat fresh fruits, salads and avoid sweets. Then I make it a point to avoid tea and coffee. Instead I try to drink milk and eat curd daily.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
The main reason for putting on weight is
(A) food
(B) drinks
(C) lack of exercise
(D) lack of knowledge.
Answer:
(C) lack of exercise
Question 12.
The author avoids in his diet
(A) fresh fruit juice
(B) deeply fried food.
(C) fresh fruit
(D) salads
Answer:
(B) deeply fried food.
Question 13.
The word in the’passage which means the same as strain or pressure is :
(A) vice versa
(B) stress
(C) regime
(D) gadgets
Answer:
(B) stress
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
What has been the present generation going through ?
Answer:
The present generation has been going through a lot of stress, tension and competition in their personal and professional lives.
Question 15.
What is the plan of diet of the author ? What has he replaced tea and coffee with ?
Answer:
He wants to eat at the right time and to eat non-vegetarian only once in a week, tries to eat green vegetables, leafy vegetables, pulses, chapatis and very less rice. The author has replaced tea and coffee with milk and curd.
8. Read the following passage.
One day a ragged beggar was creeping along from house to house. He carried an old wallet in his hand and was asking at every door a few cents to buy something to eat. As he was grumbling at his misfortune, he kept wondering why it was that folks who had so much money were never satisfied but were always wanting more.
“Here,” said he, “is the master of this house -1 know him well. He was always a good businessman and he made himself wondrously rich a long time ago. Had he been wise, he would have stopped then. He would have turned over his business to someone else, and then he could have stopped the rest of his life in ease. But what did he do instead? He built ships and sent them to sea to trade with foreign lands. He thought he would get mountains of gold.”
“But there were great storms on the water, his ships were wrecked and his riches were swallowed up by the waves. Now all his hopes lie at the bottom of the sea, and his great wealth vanished.”
“There are many such cases. Men seem to never be satisfied unless they gain the whole world.”
“As for me, if I had only enough to eat and to buy clothing, I would not want anything more.”
Just at that moment Fortune came down the street. She saw the beggar and stopped. She said to him:
“Listen! I have long wished to help you. Hold your wallet and I will pour this gold into it, but only on one condition : all that falls into the wallet shall be pure gold, but every piece that falls upon the ground shall become dust. Do you understand?”
“Oh! Yes, I understand,” said the beggar.
“Then be careful,” said Fortune, “your wallet is old, so do not load it too heavy.” The beggar was so glad that he could hardly wait. He quickly opened his wallet, and a stream of yellow dollars poured into it. The wallet grew heavy. ,
“Is that enough?” asked the Fortune.
“Not yet.”
“Isn’t it cracking?”
“Never fear.”
The beggar’s hands began to tremble. “Ah, if the gold would only pour forever!”
“You are the richest man in the world now.”
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
Why did the master of the house lose all of his money ?
(A) A robber stole it from him
(B) His ships sank at sea
(C) His treasure turned to dust
(D) He gave it all away to the poor
Answer:
(B) His ships sank at sea
Question 12.
Which word best describes the writer ?
(A) Greedy
(B) Happy
(C) Wise
(D) Weak
Answer:
(A) Greedy
Question 13.
Why do you think Fortune gives the gold to the beggar ?
(A) He has too much gold already
(B) To teach him a lesson
(C) He likes the way the beggar dresses
(D) To make him the richest man in the world
Answer:
(B) To teach him a lesson
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
What kind of man was the beggar ?
Answer:
(a) The beggar was a greedy man.
(b) He was insincere and hypocritic even at his thoughts.
Question 15.
What is the moral of this passage ?
Answer:
(a) Greediness brings us misery.
(b) To teach is very easy than to practise.
9. Read the following passage.
Why don’t Indian people go to libraries anymore? The reason is that even though India has a population of approximately 100 crores, only 50 per cent are literate and only 30 per cent educated. So, out of 100 hardly 5 people visit libraries and make use of the facilities.
Most of the erudite class lives in the metros or smaller cities and towns. Life in the smaller towns and cities is slower than the metros and at the end of the day, they get time to fulfil their hobbies. But only a fragment of the educated class can afford to pursue a hobby. People cannot afford to lose themselves in the fantastic world of books due to monetary constraints. Often those who are interested in reading do not have the financial backup, whereas people who are rich enough to buy all the luxuries of the world do not consider books a money-spinning investment.
People do not mind spending thousands of rupees on clothes but think twice before buying a book. People no longer have the space, time and energy in their lives to read.
Another aspect, which needs to be highlighted in this context, is the inception of satellite television. It is largely responsible for the decline in reading habits, especially among the youth.
Today we are addicted to the television. As a result, children instead of going through big bulky books for pleasure or purpose prefer watching their favourite TV channel. And those who do read, do not necessarily read good literature. As somebody said, “education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading”.
It is a fact that a major setback to the libraries all over the world has come due to the Internet. Nobody has the time and patience to go to the libraries. Instead, they prefer accessing online e-book services, which save time and money.
Another fact, which fails to draw people towards the library, is that a number of them are funded by the State Governments, which are always short of resources to update the books and facilities and as a result, fail to provide the reader with the latest and handy information.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
The libraries run on government funds always
(A) don’t attract readers
(B) attract readers
(C) lack in funds
(D) are allotted more funds
Answer:
(C) lack in funds
Question 12.
People prefer accessing online e-book services because
(A) they save time and money
(B) they fascinate the youth
(C) they have variety of programmes
(D) they are very near to their dwelling places
Answer:
(A) they save time and money
Question 13.
The responsible thing for decrease in number among the young people in reading is
(A) lack of money
(B) satellite television
(C) lack of interest
(D) lack of energy
Answer:
(B) satellite television
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
What do the rich prefer to buy ; the luxuries or the books ? Why ?
Answer:
The rich prefer to buy the luxuries of the world as they don’t consider books a money-spinning investment.
Question 15.
Why should one read books ?
Answer:
One should read books to acquire knowledge about various things.
10. Read the following passage.
Until a few years ago, the most extensive attempt to communicate with chimpanzees went something like this: A newborn chimp was taken into a household with a newborn baby, and both would be raised together—twin cribs, twin bassinets, twin high chairs, twin potties, twin diaper pails, twin babypowder cans. At the end of three years, the young chimp had, of course, far outstripped the young human in manual dexterity, running, leaping, climbing and other motor skills.
But while the child was happily babbling away, the chimp could say only, and with enormous difficulty, “Mama,” “Papa,” and “cup.” From this it was widely concluded that in language, reasoning and other higher mental functions, chimpanzees were only minimally competent, as it was published in “Beasts abstract not.” Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
A home reared chimp has:-
(A) A well developed physical abilities
(B) A well developed language skills
(C) A well developed hygiene sense
(D) A better sense of living
Answer:
(A) A well developed physical abilities
Question 12.
The three year old chimp is different from a child, as:-
(A) He can’t climb trees like other chimps
(B) He could speak like humans
(C) He could do different things like humans
(D) He can’t speak like humans
Answer:
(D) He can’t speak like humans
Question 13.
The different types of skills that humans develop by three years are:-
(A) Physical
(B) Communicative
(C) Language
(D) All the above
Answer:
(D) All the above
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
What was the method of communicating with Chimps described here?
Answer:
Rearing the chimp along with a human baby and developing the skills.
Question 15.
What was the conclusion of the study?
Answer:
In language, chimpanzees have only minimally competency in reasoning and other higher mental functions.
11. Read the following passage.
Many managers believe that the costs of marketing form an additional expense that have to be accepted in order to sell their goods. While it is true that many companies use certain tools of marketing for this purpose, it is also true that the most successful companies accept marketing as an essential of the company’s total commercial operation, for it is an essential cost in the same way as production or finance.
Companies often avoid planning marketing procedures in detail because of the effort needed to express their forward policy in a written form. Managers commonly consider that their time is too valuable to spend on anything other than urgent operational problems. In fact, the manager who spends his time on dealing with current administrative detail is almost certain to have ignored proper planning in the past.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
The money spend for advertisement is actually:-
(A) An additional cost incurred
(B) A part of the cost of production
(C) A part of the margin of sales
(D) A burden for the management.
Answer:
(B) A part of the cost of production
Question 12.
A major misconception the managers have is:-
(A) They need not spent time more on operational problems.
(B) They need to concentrate more on administration.
(C) They need to concentrate more on marketing strategies.
(D) They need to spent time more on operational problems.
Answer:
(D) They need to spent time more on operational problems.
Question 13.
Planning marketing policies are usually avoided as:-
(A) They are complicated
(B) They are busy
(C) The policies are useless
(D) They won’t help much in the development of the company.
Answer:
(A) They are complicated
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
What is the misconception that the managers have about advertising?
Answer:
That the expenditure on advertising is an additional expense.
Question 15.
Who is said to have ignored proper planning?
Answer:
The manager who spends his time on dealing with current administrative details.
12. Read the following passage.
The skill acquired by the early printers was not used with progressive consistency, nor did it undergo much technical development, when it came to print music. Even in the 1490s, the staves were often left blank for the notes to be added by hand. Sometimes both staves and notes were still so added. The reasons for this were liturgical, economic, and technical. Music-type was costly and consequently scarce.
Its use in a double impression was stow and expensive. Not all those who printed service books could afford this extra luxury. By no means all dioceses followed the use of Rome. Local requirements could be met more conveniently if the notes, at least, were added by hand. This enabled a printer to find a ready market for the same service book in different parts of Europe.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
The most common practice of making music books were:-
(A) Fully printed
(B) Fully handmade
(C) Notes were written
(D) None
Answer:
(C) Notes were written
Question 12.
In the olden days, the Music types were:-
(A) Costly
(B) Rare
(C) Difficult to insert
(D) All the above
Answer:
(D) All the above
Question 13.
The only Completely printed Music books were published from:
(A) Rome
(B) Everywhere
(C) Nowhere
(D) India
Answer:
(A) Rome
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
What were the major classified reasons for the difficulties of printing Music?
Answer:
The reasons for difficulties of printing music were liturgical, economic, and technical.
Question 15.
How were the local requirements of Music books cleared?
Answer:
By printing books and entering flotes and staves by hand.
13. Read the following passage.
The contemporary industrial robot, in the eyes of politicians and others, may wear the halo of high technology, but it came into being to meet a rather mundane need. In the booming labour market the early 1960s, it became increasingly difficult to find people willing to do boring, repetitive and unpleasant jobs. What was needed was not a machine which could master elaborate human skills, but one which could provide the mindless lumpen proletariat demanded by mass production.
What had to be learnt, and proved well within the robot’s capacity, were sequences of precise movement of the arm and hand. Such sequences were relatively easily programmed into a computer memory, especially after the advent of the microprocessor freed robots from their dependence on the mainframe computers of the 1960s.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
The word ‘Mundane’ means:-
(A) Manmade
(B) Realistic
(C) Nature bound
(D) Dull
Answer:
(D) Dull
Question 12.
The greatest step towards programmed memory was:-
(A) Computers
(B) Robots
(C) Microprocessors
(D) Laptops
Answer:
(C) Microprocessors
Question 13.
One of the biggest problems of 1960s was:-
(A) Advent of robots in manufacturing
(B) Increased production in factories
(C) Unwillingness of people to do boring production
(D) Technical downfall.
Answer:
(C) Unwillingness of people to do boring production
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
What was the requirement of the 1960s?
Answer:
Not a machine which could master elaborate human skills, but one which could provide the mindless lump demanded by mass production.
Question 15.
How were the robots before and after 1960s different?
Answer:
The Robots before 1960s were controlled by computers, and after 1960s were controlled by Microprocessors.
14. Read the following passage.
Nepal lies between India and Tibet, among the Himalayan mountains. It is a country of mountains and valleys. The tallest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, is in Nepal. And there are several other mountains nearly as high. When mountaineers try to climb Mount Everest, they take the help of the Sherpas, who live in these mountains, to carry heavy loads and to act as guides.
A long time ago, the Sherpas crossed over the mountains from Tibet and made their homes along the slopes of the Himalayas in Nepal. So, they are rather like the people of Tibet to look at. Here, life is hard, and the entire family, including the children, have to work to get enough to eat.
The Sherpas grow potatoes, barley, garlic, and other vegetables. They also graze their yaks on the higher mountain slopes in the summer and on the lower slopes in the winter. The Sherpas use them for almost everything they need. They ride them, plough with them, and use them to carry their goods. The hairy wool of these animals is made into cloth and their skins into leather boots and tents. The yaks also provide milk, fat and meat. Their dung is dried and used as a fuel instead of wood or coal.
There are hardly any roads in the Himalayas, and everything has to be carried either on animals like yaks and donkeys or on human backs. Even children learn to carry heavy loads in large baskets which are tied to them. The baskets are big enough to carry a person.
The highest mountain tops of the Himalayas are cold, cheerless and covered with snow, but lower down one can find flowers in the spring and summer, and fir trees too. There are colourful butterflies, kites and eagles in the skies, and black and red Himalayan bears hiding in the rocks.
Though the Sherpas lead a tough life in their beautiful country, these small, dark haired people are always cheerful, and like most Buddhist people, they are friendly and kind.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
What is the passage about ?
(A) About Mount Everest
(B) About Nepal
(C) About the Sherpas
(D) About the life in Nepal
Answer:
(C) About the Sherpas
Question 12.
Actually Sherpas are the aborigines of
(A) India
(B) Bhutan
(C) Nepal
(D) Tibet
Answer:
(D) Tibet
Question 13.
What is used as a fuel in Nepal
(A) Coal
(B) Firewood
(C) Dung of the yaks
(D) Dung of cows
Answer:
(C) Dung of the yaks
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
What are the modes of transport in the Himalaya?
Answer:
There are hardly any roads ¡n the Himalayas and everything has to be carried either on animals like yaks and donkeys or human backs. Even children learn to carry heavy loads ¡n large baskets which are tied to them. The baskets are big enough to carry a person.
Question 15.
Why do Sherpas look like the people of Tibet ?
Answer:
A long time ago Sherpas crossed over the mountains from Tibet and made their homes along the slopes of the Himalayas in Nepal. So they are rather like the people of Tibet to took at.
15. Read the following passage.
Gates Avenue was a short street, but it seemed longer because it was so ugly. Most of the families who lived there had very little money. They never expected to have any more. Their houses had not been painted for many years and they did not have even running water.
The girls in the school near Gates Avenue wore pretty new clothes on a spring festival. But one little girl wore same dirty clothes that she had worn all winter. Probably that was the only dress she owned. The teacher noticed this. The little girl was not very rveat.
One day the teacher said, “Leave alone your clothes, would you wash your face before you come to school tomorrow morning?” The girl smiled and replied, “I have only one frock and one face. I cannot give my frock to a laundry. Regarding my face, I shall keep it clean by washing.” The teacher took pity on the poor girl. She bought two new frocks for the oirl. The girl got her spring gifts.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
Many of houses were not painted for many years because
(A) the people were too poor to buy paints,
(B) the people were disinterested to paint.
(C) the paints were very costly.
(D) the school children did not like painted houses.
Answer:
(A) the people were too poor to buy paints,
Question 12.
The girl had been wearing the same dress
(A) for the last three months.
(B) throughout the winter.
(C) since the beginning of summer.
(D) since the beginning of the spring.
Answer:
(B) throughout the winter.
Question 13.
The teacher advised the girl
(A) to work hard.
(B) to be punctual to school.
(C) to keep her face clean.
(D) not to quarrel with others.
Answer:
(C) to keep her face clean.
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
Describe Gates Avenue.
Answer:
Gates Avenue was a short street, but it seemed longer because it was so ugly. Most of the families who lived there had very little money. They never expected to have any more. Their houses had not been painted for many years and they did not have even running water.
Question 15.
Why did the teacher take pity on the girl and what did she do ?
Answer:
The teacher took pity on the girl because she was very poor and she owned only one dress to wear. The teacher bought two new frocks for the girl.
16. Read the following passage.
Luke was never an ice hockey fan. May be because his sports-minded dad had died when he was only three years old, and he was raised by a single mother who knew absolutely nothing about the game. That mother is me. His older brother, Jay, a diehard arts student, was more interested in exposing Luke to the world of art galleries and movies than to the rough-and-tumble sport of hockey. But in spite of the influences around him, Luke evolved, and one day woke up and had discovered hockey. It was 2002, and he was hooked.
“Mom, I want to join a hockey league,” he announced.
It was a reasonable request from a young boy, but since Luke couldn’t even skate, it was with a heavy heart that I started looking for a team. As a matter of fact, at almost twelve years of age, Luke had never skated a day in his life. I asked a league if it was possible for a nonskater to join. He got the nod and was drafted into house league.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
The expression, “He got the nod …………………“ means
(A) he was refused
(B) he was allowed.
(C) he was thrown out
(D) he was tackled.
Answer:
(B) he was allowed.
Question 12.
Luke’s mother was worried when he said he wanted to join a hockey league because
(A) Luke didn’t even know how to skate
(B) Luke was only twelve years old.
(C) Luke lost his father.
(D) Luke didn’t know about the death of his father
Answer:
(A) Luke didn’t even know how to skate
Question 13.
What do you understand by the expression, “………. and he was hooked”?
(A) he was hanged
(B) he caught something with a hook
(C) he bought a hook
(D) he was attracted
Answer:
(D) he was attracted
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
Why do you think Luke was never an ice hockey fan ?
Answer:
Luke was never an ice hockey fan because his sports-minded dad had died when he was only three years old and he was raised by a single mother.
Question 15.
“But in spite of the influences around him, Luke evolved ” What were the influences around him ?
Answer:
The influences were:
- His father had died.
- He was raised by a single mother who knew absolutely nothing about the ice hockey.
- His older brother Jay was more interested in exposing Luke to the world of art galleries and movies than to the sport of hockey.
17. Read the following passage.
There is now considerable evidence that Type B malnutrition is a major cause of chronic degenerative diseases. If this is the case, then it is logical to treat such diseases not with drugs but with multiple micronutrient repletion, or ‘pharmaco-nutrition’. This can take the form of pills and capsules-‘nutraceuticals’, or food formats known as ‘functional foods’.
This approach has been neglected hitherto because it is relatively unprofitable for drug companies-the products are hard to patent-and it is a strategy which does not sit easily with modern medical interventionism. Over the last 100 years, the drug industry has invested huge sums in developing a range of subtle and powerful drugs to treat the many diseases we are subject to. Medical training is couched in pharmaceutical terms and this approach has provided us with an exceptional range of therapeutic tools in the treatment of disease and in acute medical emergencies.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
The word’Chronic’means:-
(A) In the order of
(B) collections
(C) Order of stories
(D) difficult to cure
Answer:
(D) difficult to cure
Question 12.
The best ways to fight Type B malnutrition is:?
(A) Therapeutic Tools
(B) Drugs
(C) Functional food
(D) Death
Answer:
(C) Functional food
Question 13.
The drug companies were against Functional Food as:
(A) It was not a good solution
(B) It was unprofitable for them
(C) It has affected their investment on drugs
(D) It was a waste to use them.
Answer:
(C) It has affected their investment on drugs
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
What do you mean by ‘Functional Food?
Answer:
A food containing health giving additives.
Question 15.
How has the drug industry become helpful?
Answer:
The drug industry has provided us with an exceptional range of therapeutic tools in the treatment of disease and in acute medical emergencies.
18. Read the following passage.
The Serengeti lions have been under continuous observation for more than 35 years, beginning with George Schaller’s pioneering work in the 1960s. But the lions in Tsavo, Kenya’s oldest and largest protected ecosystem, have hardly been studied. Consequently, legends have grown up around them. Not only do they look different, according to the myths, they behave differently, displaying greater cunning and aggressiveness. Their fearsome image became well-known in 1898, when two males stalled construction of what is now Kenya Railways by allegedly killing and eating 135 Indian and African laborers.
A British Army officer in charge of building a railroad bridge over the Tsavo River, Lt. Col. J. H. Patterson, spent nine months pursuing the pair before he brought them to bay and killed them. Stuffed and mounted, they now glare at visitors to the Field Museum in Chicago. Patterson’s account of the leonine reign of terror, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, was an international best-seller when published in 1907. Still in print, the book has made Tsavo’s lions notorious. That annoys some scientists.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
Tsavo is located at:-
(A) USA
(B) Chicago
(C) Britain
(D) Kenya
Answer:
(D) Kenya
Question 12.
The legends were made about the Tsavo Lions, as:-
(A) They were known for their ferociousness
(B) They are mythological
(C) They are not much studied about
(D) They are unique and strange.
Answer:
(A) They were known for their ferociousness
Question 13.
The two male lions are now:-
(A) Still wandering in Tsavo
(B) Displayed in Chicago Zoo
(C) Stuffed and kept at the Field Museum in Chicago
(D) Mythological.
Answer:
(C) Stuffed and kept at the Field Museum in Chicago
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
How was the ferocity of Tsavo Lions came to be famous?
Answer:
In 1898, two male lions stalled the construction of Kenya Railways by allegedly killing and eating 135 Indian and African laborers.
Question 15.
Why were some scientists annoyed?
Answer:
The book by Mr, Patterson, on his hunting down the two male Tsavo lions, has presented the Lions as notorious.
19. Read the following passage.
During Second World War, American planners were well aware that the United States was going to emerge as a world-dominant power, in a position of hegemony that had few historical parallels, and they organized and met in order to deal with this situation. From 1939 to 1945, extensive studies were conducted by the Council on Foreign Relations and the State Department.
One group was called the War-Peace Studies Group, which met for six years and produced extensive geopolitical analyses and plans. The Council on Foreign Relations is essentially the business input to foreign policy planning. These groups also involved every top planner in the State Department, with the exception of the Secretary of State. The conception that they developed is what they called ‘Grand Area’ planning.
The Grand Area was a region that was to be subordinated to the needs of the American economy. As one planner put it, it was to be the region that is “strategically necessary for world control.” The geopolitical analysis held that the Grand Area had to include at least the Western Hemisphere.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
USA has emerged as a World Power after the
(A) First World War
(B) Second World War
(C) Gulf War
(D) Vietnam War
Answer:
(B) Second World War
Question 12.
The ‘Historical Parallels’ mentioned is:
(A) USSR
(B) Middle East
(C) India
(D) Russia
Answer:
(A) USSR
Question 13.
The economical support required was to be gained from:
(A) The War
(B) Grand Area
(C) USSR
(D) Alaska
Answer:
(B) Grand Area
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
Why were the studies conducted before the Second World War?
Answer:
From 1939 to 1945, extensive studies were conducted by the Council on Foreign Relations and the State Department, in order to deal with historical parallels.
Question 15.
How was ‘Grand Area’ important for USA?
Answer:
The Grand Area was a region that was to be subordinated to the needs of the American economy. It was to be the region that is ‘strategically necessary for world control.”
20. Read the following passage.
More than a century later, the Earth seems to be literally falling to pieces – recent environmental setbacks include billions of tonnes of ice shelves breaking off in the Antarctic and unusually warm temperatures in different parts of the world. Panic reactions range from predictions of sinking islands to lamenting the ill-effects of global warming induced by release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The trouble is that we are too obsessed with the climate change problem to even acknowledge the fact that the state of the planet hinges on much more.
Climate change is at best a symptom of a far more complex malaise, just as a fever is most often only an indicator of something that’s gone awry in our body. It’s time for a complete and comprehensive planetary health check, that will examine the impacts of change in land use, loss of biodiversity, use of fertilizers and pesticides and consistent pollution of water bodies. This would overcome the limitations of evaluating how ecosystems work by reacting to just, one major environmental concern as is happening in the case of global warming.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
Ice Shelves in Antarctica is melting down due to:-
(A) Landslides
(B) Heavy Weight
(C) Environmental Change
(D) Chemicals
Answer:
(C) Environmental Change
Question 12.
Environmental changes are best reflected:-
(A) Every day
(B) Seasons
(C) Climate Changes
(D) Pollutions
Answer:
(C) Climate Changes
Question 13.
The problems and impacts of the environmental changes are termed as
(A) Global Warming
(B) Climate Change
(C) Green House Effect
(D) Heat wave
Answer:
(C) Green House Effect
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
What are the effects of Global Warming?
Answer:
Breaking of Ice shelves in Antarctica, Climatic Changes, Sinking Islands into the oceans.
Question 15.
Why is a planetary Health Check important now?
Answer:
A whole planetary check now could help in retaining the remaining world and resources, as well as for repairing the damages.
21. Read the following passage.
Like most teenagers, I dreamed of one day having my name in lights. And perhaps an interview in National Geographic for my work with Rwanda’s apes. May be an Oscar for my portrayal as a feisty heroine in an epic drama preferably set in India. Or a Nobel Prize for poetry, which ‘I’d collect in Stockholm wearing a black turtleneck. Suffice to say, none of these has come true. I prefer dogs to gorillas. My poetry is used to line the bottom of my drawer, and I’ve never been to India.
Sure, as a writer, I get my name in the occasional glow of a nine-point byline, but the difference between Oscars and Nobels and Helvetica type face is that the former are all about me; the latter is by me. With the advent of the internet, all that has changed. Like most users, I am a gratuitous googler, squandering valuable work time looking up invaluable topics such as how to clean my dog’s teeth, how to cook Risotto, and, myriad medical ailments, including tough heels (definitely cancer), lumps on elbows (certainly cancer) and easy bruising (absolutely cancer).
But among these endless searches will be a valuable constant: my own name, Helen Walne. In the great scheme of things I am not very important. I have never been medically paroled from jailed, I haven’t gone to rehab and I am not about to marry a famous celebrity. My husband has gently suggested that I seek psychological help for my addiction.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
‘To have names in Lights’ means:-
(A) To become popular
(B) To be wealthy
(C) To forget all
(D) To lighten up
Answer:
(A) To become popular
Question 12.
The poet says that his creations have come from:-
(A) Bottom of Heart
(B) Bottom of the Pen
(C) Bottom of drawer
(D) death
Answer:
(C) Bottom of drawer
Question 13.
The poet says about the problem she has as addiction to:-
(A) Dream
(B) Drugs
(C) Smoking
(D) Medicines
Answer:
(A) Dream
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
What does the poet say about the usage of Google?
Answer:
Most of the people use Google and other such facilities for something which is not that much useful.
Question 15.
What did her husband suggest her?
Answer:
The poet’s husband suggested her to take the help of the psychologist to clear the addiction of dreams.
22. Read the following passage.
Libraries comprise an important part of the market for printed books and they are increasingly aware of the fragility of this material. The extend of the deterioration of library collections is alarming. Surveys conducted at various major institutions reveal that 26 percent to 40 percent of the books they hold are seriously embrittled and thus unavailable for normal use.
Programmes are now being developed with two main aims in mind-on the one hand, to improve the physical condition of library collections, especially by the process called ‘mass de-acidification’ (which is designed to eliminate acid from the paper of published books and insert a buffer compound that will provide protection against future acid attack form the environment); and on the other, to transfer the contents of existing books to another medium (such as microfilm or optical disk).
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
Now a days, the Libraries face a large scale….
(A) Increase
(B) Deleted
(C) Decrease
(D) Classified
Answer:
(C) Decrease
Question 12.
The books in Libraries are unable to be used as they are:-
(A) Damaged
(B) Neglected
(C) Over used
(D) Torn
Answer:
(B) Neglected
Question 13.
The content of the books need to be transferred to another medium for:-
(A) They need to be preserved
(B) The books are being damaged.
(C) The books are being burned off
(D) Books are being sold off.
Answer:
(B) The books are being damaged.
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
Why are Libraries described as fragile?
Answer:
Because the digital media has started with greater influence among the readers, as they offer great advantages, which Libraries can’t offer.
Question 15.
What do you mean by ‘mass de-acidification’?
Answer:
Mass de-acidification is designed to eliminate acid from the paper of published books and insert a buffer compound that will provide protection against future acid attack from the environment.
23. Read the following passage.
“On the morning of June 4, some residents of Dandong city of Liaoning province were shot by DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, as the North Korea is officially known] border guards on suspicion of crossing the border for trade activities, leaving three dead and one injured”, said Mr. Qin. After the incident, China attached great importance to it and immediately raised solemn representations to the DPRK. The shooting, which also left one person injured, was first reported over, “the weekend by the North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity, a group of defectors based in Seoul, South Korea.
The group said, “The three Chinese were traders who were trying to smuggle copper into China”. Chinese officials did not verify this claim, and said investigations into the incident were still progressing. Recent months have seen some signs of discord between the long-term allies, with China coming under increasing international pressure to take action against North Korea over an attack on a South Korean warship. Following the March 26 sinking of the Cheonan warship, which left 46 sailors dead, South Korea and the West have been calling for strong sanctions against North Korea.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
DPRK stands for:-
(A) Korea
(B) North Korea
(C) South Kore
(D) China
Answer:
(B) North Korea
Question 12.
The shooting was
(A) Very severe and dangerous
(B) Mild and not that dangerous
(C) Three people killed in the accident
(D) The police people were killed
Answer:
(B) Mild and not that dangerous
Question 13.
The long-term allies mentioned here are…………
(A) North and South Korea
(B) North Korea and China
(C) South Korea and China
(D) China and India
Answer:
(B) North Korea and China
Answer the following questions in two or three.
Question 14.
What was the reason for the Shootout on July 4?
Answer:
Four people who were suspected to be smuggling goods from Korea to China were shot.
Question 15.
What was the earlier reason for the unrest in the region?
Answer:
The sinking of the ‘Cheonan warship, which left 46 sailors dead, on March 26.
24. Read the following passage.
Of the several features or the Toyota Production System that have been widely studied, most important is the mode of governance of the shop-floor at Toyota. Work and inter-relations between workers are highly scripted in extremely detailed ‘operating procedures’ that have to be followed rigidly, without any deviation at Toyota. Despite such rule- bound rigidity, however, Toyota does not become a ‘command-control system’. It is able to retain the character of a learning organization.
In fact, many observers characterize it as a community of scientists carrying out several small experiments simultaneously. The design of the operating procedure is the key. Every principle must find an expression in the operating procedure – that is how it has an effect in the domain of action. Workers on the shop-floor, often in teams, design the ‘operating procedure’ jointly with the supervisor through a series of hypothesis that are proposed and validated or refuted through experiments in action.
The rigid and detailed ‘operating procedure’ specification throws up problems of the very minute kind: while its resolution leads to a refraining of the procedure and specifications. This inter-temporal change (or flexibility) of the specification (or operating procedure) is done at the lowest level of the organization; i.e. closest to the site of action.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
The system of administration which is not found in Toyota is………..
(A) Free and lucid
(B) Operation oriented
(C) Command-Control
(D) Free
Answer:
(C) Command-Control
Question 12.
The key of success, as per the success of Toyota is:-
(A) is to follow the rules and implementations
(B) to not to keep and follow the rules and regulations.
(C) to keep the rules simple and make the customer satisfactory.
(D) Designing the operation procedures with practical wisdom.
Answer:
(D) Designing the operation procedures with practical wisdom.
Question 13.
The rigid and detailed ‘operating procedure’ specification throws up ..
(A) Problems of the very minute kind
(B) The problems to the large extend
(C) Operating Procedures
(D) Commanding and Controlling them.
Answer:
(A) Problems of the very minute kind
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
What is the characteristic feature of a learning organization?
Answer:
To keep the rules being followed and make the customers satisfied and happy.
Question 15.
What is the ‘Flexibility’ mentioned in the passage?
Answer:
Deriving resolutions for the problems to the minute kinds and finding the way ahead.
25. Read the following passage.
We are not only afraid of being in the dark; we are also suspicious of being kept in the dark. We often feel that the universe has a hidden order that we cannot quite comprehend. In ancient times, this order was attributed to the gods – omnipotent beings who controlled humans’ Tales, Greek myths in particular portrayed humans as pawns in the great games played by the gods. More recently, there are suspicions of global conspiracies. These conspiracies are cited for events that are too important to be random. We no longer describe them as “Acts of God.”
So they must be the work of other people – people who are hiding their influence over us, covering up their involvement. They are keeping the rest of us in the dark. Among the events attributed to these people are political assassinations and UFO sightings. Examining these events in minute detail results in a long list of “coincidences” which, in the minds of the conspiracy buffs, are too numerous to be truly random. There must be a central planner who is at the hub of a sinister form of order.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
The omnipotents who controlled humans are the
(A) Rulers
(B) Leaders
(C) Manipulators
(D) Gods
Answer:
(D) Gods
Question 12.
UFO stands for…
(A) Universal Federal Organizations
(B) Universal Financial Organisation
(C) Unidentified Flying Objects
(D) Unidentified Familiar Opponents
Answer:
(C) Unidentified Flying Objects
Question 13.
A suitable replacement for’coincidence’is…
(A) Happenings
(B) Speaking
(C) Dealings
(D) Events
Answer:
(A) Happenings
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
Who are ‘They’ mentioned in the passage?
Answer:
The people who are working behind keeping the majority of the people in dark.
Question 15.
What do you mean by ‘Act of God’?
Answer:
The events that keep us in dark, which were earlier believed to be the actions of Gods.
26. Read the following passage.
The fundamental problem is that an evolved mind must pay attention to indirect cues of biological fitness, rather than tracking fitness itself. This was a key insight of evolutionary psychology in the early 1990s; although evolution favours brains that tend to maximize fitness (as measured by numbers of great-grandkids), no brain has, on an average, under ancestrally normal conditions.
Technology has fairly good capacity enough to do so under every possible circumstance. As a result, brains must evolve shortcuts: fitness-promoting tricks, cons, recipes and heuristics that work at controlling external reality to promote real biological fitnesses, but it’s even better at delivering fake fitness – subjective cues of survival and reproduction without the real-world effects.
Fitness-faking technology tends to evolve much faster than our psychological resistance to it. With the invention of Xbox 360, people would rather play a high-resolution virtual ape in Peter Jackson’s King Kong than be a perfect-resolution real human. Teens today must find their way through a carnival of addictively fitness-faking entertainment products. The traditional staples of physical, mental and social development – athletics, homework, dating – are neglected. The few young people with the self-control to pursue the meritocratic path often get distracted at the last minute.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
The word ‘Biological Fitness’ stands for:-
(A) Psychological fitness
(B) Physical Fitness
(C) Mental Fitness
(D) Psycho-Physiological Fitness
Answer:
(D) Psycho-Physiological Fitness
Question 12.
Brain has to develop shortcuts because:-
(A) The brain has to adjust with the world of today.
(B) The brain has to adjust as per the technological advancement.
(C) The brain has to develop so as to develop the technology.
(D) The brain and technology has to develop hand in hand.
Answer:
(B) The brain has to adjust as per the technological advancement.
Question 13.
The basic issue of the day ¡s:-
(A) Today’ s teens are not much interested in the traditional methods of fitness.
(B) The technology of the day is supporting the fitness technology of people.
(C) The world has to adjust as per the requirement of the day.
(D) Technology should support the development of the brain also.
Answer:
(A) Today’ s teens are not much interested in the traditional methods of fitness.
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
How is technology different from the human brain?
Answer:
Technology which we have, can evolve over the fitness level but human brain cannot.
Question 15.
What do you mean by ‘Fitness Faking Technology’?
Answer:
Technical advancements which make us believe that we have fitness level which we do not actually possess.
27. Read the following passage.
Sunil Mittal led Bharti Airtel announced that it had completed the acquisition of Zain Telecom’s Africa operations for $10.7 billion. The company has now 180 million subscribers in 18 Asian and African nations. The company announced that it would launch the Airtel brand in Zain’s operations in all the 15 nations. Announcing the completion of the deal, Bharti Group Chairman Sunil Mittal said, “The transaction is the largest ever cross border deal in an emerging market and will result in combined revenues of about $13 billion.
Bharti finally entered Africa after aborting negotiations twice for merger with MTN since 2008, with Mr. Mittal stating that in the Zain’s case, Airtel would have a total control, He said “Zain Africa would now be 100 per cent subsidiary of Bharti International”. This deal would signal many new investments that would go to Africa, he added. At present, China Mobile is the world’s largest mobile player with a subscriber base of 522 million, followed by Vodafone (348 million), Telefonica (206 million) and American Movil (201 million).
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
In South Asian Numbering System, one Billion is…
(A) One Crore
(B) 100 Crores
(C) 100 Lakhs
(D) 1000 Lakhs
Answer:
(B) 100 Crores
Question 12.
The word ‘Cross Border’ means:-
(A) Across the border of the neighbouring nations.
(B) Across two war affected Countries.
(C) Across two nations
(D) Across two states.
Answer:
(C) Across two nations
Question 13.
The deal is finalized with:-
(A) Making Airtel collaborating with Zian Africa.
(B) Making Zian Africa a completely controlled subsidiary of Bharti Airtel.
(C) Making Bharti Airtel a subsidiary of Zian Africa.
(D) Both Bharti Airtel and Zian Africa are sharing the deal.
Answer:
(B) Making Zian Africa a completely controlled subsidiary of Bharti Airtel.
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
How long Bharti Airtel had been trying to enter Africa?
Answer:
Sharti Airtel had been trying to enter Africa, since 2008 or for 9 years.
Question 15.
Why do you think China Mobile is the world’s largest Mobile Player?
Answer:
As China has the largest population, and almost all people use mobile phones, China is the largest Mobile Player in the world.
28. Read the following passage.
A comprehensive emergency obstetrics and neonatal care centre block will be constructed at an estimated cost of 9 crore with World Bank assistance at the Annal Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital. A three-member World Bank team from New Delhi led by Preeti Kudesia and Sundararajan S Gopalan, (Senior Health Specialists) and Sangeeta Pinto (Operations Analyst), which visited the site of the proposed block at the Hospital, expressed satisfaction about the site.
Talking to the media persons, Dr Preeti Kudesia said that the team-members would discuss about the proposed project with the Tamil Nadu Health Secretary and other officials at Chennai in a day or two. The proposed block was expected to be constructed in a span of two years even though the project period would be three years, she said. She pointed out that the World Bank was supporting the Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project. It provided soft loan to the Tamil Nadu Government for implementing various health projects.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
The word ‘Comprehensive’ means:-
(A) Clear
(B) Include
(C) Complete
(D) Include
Answer:
(C) Complete
Question 12.
The passage says that:-
(A) The construction of the block is already done.
(B) The construction of the new block is being planned.
(C) The construction of the building is rejected and neglected.
(D) The construction of the new building is to be completed.
Answer:
(B) The construction of the new block is being planned.
Question 13.
The construction of the new block is:-
(A) Supported by World Bank.
(B) Supported by The Government of Tamil Nadu
(C) Supported by TN Health System
(D) Supported by The Government of India
Answer:
(A) Supported by World Bank.
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
When is the project of New Block to be completed?
Answer:
The Project of New Block is to be constructed in a span of two years even though the project period would be three years.
Question 15.
What do you mean by ‘Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project?
Answer:
A World Bank supported programme in Tamil Nadu, to support the Health Improvement Programmes of the people of Tamil Nadu.
29. Read the following passage.
Among those who call themselves socialists, two kinds of persons may be distinguished. There are, in the first place, those whose plan for a new order of society, in which private and individual competition are to be superseded and other motives to action substituted, are on the scale of a village community of township, and would be applied to an entire country by the multiplication of such self-acting units; of this character are the systems of Owen, of Fourier, and the more thoughtful and philosophic socialists generally.
The other class, which is more a product of the continent than of Great Britain and may be called the revolutionary socialists, has people who propose to themselves a much bolder stroke. Their scheme is the management of the whole productive resources of the country by one central authority, the general government. And with this view some of them avow as their purpose that the working classes, or somebody on their behalf, should take possession of all the property of the country, and administer it for the general benefit.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
The basic difference between the two kinds of Socialists is:-
(A) Traditional and Rebellious
(B) Traditional and Reverting
(C) Traditional and Revolutionary
(D) Revolutionary and Reverting
Answer:
(C) Traditional and Revolutionary
Question 12.
The word ‘supersede’ means:-
(A) At a great speed
(B) To replace something
(C) To Reduce Something
(D) Replace
Answer:
(B) To replace something
Question 13.
The Second Category of Socialists are generally called:-
(A) The dangerous Dacoits
(B) The Revolutionaries
(C) The Vicious groups
(D) The Sedative Group
Answer:
(B) The Revolutionaries
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
What is the ideology of the second Category of Socialists?
Answer:
The Second Category Socialists believe that the production needs to be controlled by the Central Authority, like the Government.
Question 15.
What is the basic Philosophy of the first category of the Socialists?
Answer:
The wealth of the nation or the society should never be concentrated in the hands of some people, but distributed to all the people equally.
30. Read the following passage.
The Japanese want their Emperor to reign for long, but their Prime Ministers to have very short tenures. During the 61 years Hirohito has been on the Chrysanthemum throne, 38 prime ministers have come and gone (or atleast 32, if returns to power are left out of account). Eisaku Sato’s eight uninterrupted years as prime minister in the Sixties and early Seventies provoked fears about the possible ill-effects of one-man leadership on Japanese democracy, and led the dominant Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to lay down the norm of a two-year for a party chief and head of government.
Mr. Yasuhiro Nakasone, now bowing out, has served for an unusual five years. His success as Prime Minister was evidenced by the ruling party re-electing him leader more than once. But his plan to push through the Diet a Bill to levy 5 percent indirect tax as part of financial reforms failed, in spite of LDP majority in both the chambers. It was time then for him to go.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
The passage reveals that the Governing system of Japan is basically of:-
(A) The elected body by the people.
(B) The Kingship of the past
(C) The Elected Body under the Kingship.
(D) The Kingship under the Elected body.
Answer:
(C) The Elected Body under the Kingship.
Question 12.
Japanese Democracy is led by:-
(A) The Prime Minister
(B) The King
(C) The King & The PM
(D) None
Answer:
(A) The Prime Minister
Question 13.
The Official Kingship of Japan is described as:
(A) LDP
(B) The Chrysanthemum throne
(C) The PM
(D) Leader
Answer:
(B) The Chrysanthemum throne
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
How did the Government system in Japan change?
Answer:
Eisaku Sato’s eight uninterrupted years as prime minister in the Sixties and early Seventies provoked fears about the possible ill-effects of one-man leadership on Japanese democracy, and led the dominant Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to lay down the norm of a two-year for a party chief and head of government.
Question 15.
How is Mr. Yasuhiro Nakasone different from other Prime Ministers of Japan?
Answer:
He has served as the Prime Minister for Five Years.
31. Read the following passage.
An urgent problem is now threatening libraries throughout the world. Their collections that are crucial for diverse purposes as economic development, educational research and recreational pursuits are in danger of disintegrating. ‘ The problem is mainly due to one cause-the type of paper on which books have been printed for the past one and a half centuries. Until the 1850s, paper was produced from linen or cotton rags and proved to be relatively long-lasting.
In the mid-19th century, however, the popular demand for paper and the commercial need for an economic method of production led to the use of mechanically ground wood pulp. Paper manufactured from wood pulp is highly acidic and therefore inherently unstable. It contains lignin-a major factor in causing paper to discolour and disintegrate. The useful lifespan of most 20th century book paper has been estimated to be no more than a few decades.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
The major problem that the libraries face now are:
(A) Preserving the books
(B) Lack of reading community
(C) Advancing Technology
(D) Quality of the books being bought.
Answer:
(A) Preserving the books
Question 12.
The most important aspect of a book is:
(A) The kind of user it aims
(B) The kind of information it carries
(C) The kind of paper used for its making
(D) The kind of ink used for printing.
Answer:
(C) The kind of paper used for its making
Question 13.
The paper made with latest advanced technology :-
(A) Could last longer than expected.
(B) Has a very limited life span
(C) Is much better than the old paper
(D) Could last for ever.
Answer:
(B) Has a very limited life spa
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
What are the basic purposes for which the Libraries are being used?
Answer:
Economic development, educational research and recreational pursuits.
Question 15.
Why was the quality of the paper had to be compromised?
Answer:
The popular demand for paper and the commercial need for an economic method of production led to the use of mechanically ground wood pulp, and compromise the quality.
32. Read the following sentences.
Every state has constitution, since every state functions on the basis of certain rules and principles. It has often been asserted that the United States has a written constitution but that the Constitution of Great Britain is unwritten. This is true only in the sense that, in the United States, there is a formal document called the Constitution, whereas there is not such document in Great Britain.
In fact, however, many parts of the British Constitution exist in written form, whereas important aspects of the American Constitution are wholly unwritten. The British Constitution includes the Bill of Rights (1689), the Act of Settlement (1700-01), the Parliament Act of 1911, the successive Representation of the People Acts (which extended the suffrage), the statutes dealing with the structure of the courts, the various local government Acts, and many others.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
The meaning of’Local Government’is:-
(A) The hierarchy or ruling with the King as the Head
(B) The Prime Minister and the Group of Ministers.
(C) The Chief Ministers and the Cabinet Ministers
(D) The Village / Panchayat Level Administration
Answer:
(D) The Village / Panchayat Level Administration
Question 12.
The Nation which has an unwritten Constitution is:-
(A) The USA
(B) England
(C) India
(D) Japan
Answer:
(B) England
Question 13.
The word’Suffrage’means:-
(A) The Right to participate in Elections.
(B) The Right to make people Suffer.
(C) The Right to vote in Elections.
(D) The Right to become the ruler.
Answer:
(C) The Right to vote in Elections.
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
Why does every state need a Constitution?
Answer:
Every state needs a constitutIon so that it functions on the basis of certain rules and principles.
Question 15.
What do you mean by ‘A Written Constitution’?
Answer:
To have a formal Document called The Constitution.
33. Read the following passage.
A truly preventive medicine that focused on the pre-ill, analysing the metabolic errors which lead to clinical illness, might be able to correct them before the first symptom. Genetic risk factors are known for all the chronic degenerative diseases, and are important to the individuals who possess them. At the population level, however, migration studies confirm that these illnesses are linked for the most part to lifestyle factors—exercise, smoking and nutrition. Nutrition is the easiest of these to change, and the most versatile tool for affecting the metabolic changes needed to tilt the balance away from disease.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
What we mean by’Pre-ill’is:-
(A) The occurrence of a specific Illness earlier.
(B) Before falling sick.
(C) The occurrence of the illness later in life.
(D) The history of the disease.
Answer:
(B) Before falling sick.
Question 12.
One of the major risk factor for chronic degenerative diseases are:-
(A) Life standards
(B) Migration
(C) Generic Risk
(D) Smoking
Answer:
(C) Generic Risk
Question 13.
The major studies are usually done in the fields of:-
(A) Generic
(B) Migration
(C) Nutrition
(D) All of the above
Answer:
(D) All of the above
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
How does the ‘Nutrition’ become a factor of illness?
Answer:
Nutrition is the most versatile tool for affecting the metabolic changes needed to tilt the balance away from disease.
Question 15.
What are identified as the reasons for many illness in the population level study?
Answer:
Lifestyle and Nutrition.
34. Read the following passage. (March 2018)
Great and marvellous indeed are the achievements of Science. It has broken down the barriers of time and distance. Travelling has become short, safe and comfortable. It has made contact and communication with the wold easier and quicker by inventing telephones, telegraphs and the wireless. Agricultre is no longer at the mercy of nature. Yields have been multiplied with the help of mechanized farming and chemical fertilizers. Science has brought a revolution in the sphere of trade, commerce, industry and entertainment. It has relieved human suffering by discovering the secrets of health and diseases.
We, thus, see that Science is a blessing, but it is not an unmixed blessing. No doubt, it has turned impossibility into possibility, imagination into reality. But the question is whether it has taught us how to walk.on the mother earth. It has brought forth the evils of industrialization. Machines have become the masters of man. Can we forget dirty slums, unequal distribution of wealth and large scale unemployment in the wake of industrialization ? Wars have become more hideous than ever before. Thanks to the invention of terrible engines of destruction by Science.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
Science has brought a revolution in _______
(A) trade and distance
(B) trade, commerce and industry
(C) time and commerce
(D) time and distance
Answer:
(B) trade, commerce and industry
Question 12.
Science has _______ the human suffering.
(A) reduced
(B) kept constant
(C) increased
(D) added to
Answer:
(A) reduced
Question 13.
The following can be the best proposed title to the passage.
(A) Advantages of Science
(B) Advantages and Disadvantages of Science
(C) Disadvantages of Science
(D) Achievements of Science
Answer:
(B) Advantages and Disadvantages of Science
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
Why does the writer say, ‘Agriculture is no longer at the mercy of nature” ?
Answer:
Since crop yields have been multiplied with the use of mechanized farming and chemical fertilizers, agriculture is no longer at the mercy of nature.
Question 35.
What do you think are the evils of industrialization ?
Answer:
The evils of industrialization are that machines have become the masters of man. It has given rise to the large scale increase of dirty slums and unequal distribution of wealth and unemployment.
35. Read the following passage. (June 2018)
Long ago in Mongolia there lived an emperor who feared growing old. One day, he saw an old man in the street. Upset at being reminded that some day, he too, would age, he ordered all the old people to leave his land.
One day, a violent storm swept the kingdom. Nothing was safe from its fury. It roared into the palace and blew away the emperor’s belongings, including his priceless golden pitcher. When the storm ended, the emperor ordered that the pitcher be found and brought back to him.
People went in search of the pitcher. They saw it in a lake nearby. But no matter who tried, no one could get a grip on the pitcher. All they got was a handful of water. Yet it could be plainly seen, glittering and just below the water’s surface.
Now, Choose the correct answer from the options given.
Question 11.
The emperor’s orders were that all the
(A) old men should leave his land.
(B) the children should leave his land.
(C) young man should leave his land
(D) old men should live in his land.
Answer:
(A) old men should leave his land.
Question 12.
The emperor feared of getting
(A) young
(B) ill
(C) weak
(D) old
Answer:
(D) old
Question 13.
On seeing the old man he reminded that he also would be
(A) getting old
(B) dying soon
(C) becoming strong
(D) defeated
Answer:
(A) getting old
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.
Question 14.
What happened when the storm attacked the kingdom ?
Answer:
The storm swept the kingdom. It roared into the palace and blew away the emperors belongings, including his priceless golden pitcher.
Question 15.
Do you support the emperor’s decision ? Why ?
Answer:
I don’t support the emperor’s decision because every person would age and old people are the storehouses of wisdom.